书目名称 | Edward Said and the Authority of Literary Criticism | 编辑 | Nicolas Vandeviver | 视频video | | 概述 | Investigates the intellectual strands that informed Said’s Orientalism.Provides a broad history of mid-twentieth-century literary criticism with special attention to the vocabulary of literary theory. | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .This book examines the earliest writings of Edward Said and the foundations of what came to be known as postcolonial criticism, in order to reveal how the groundbreaking author of .Orientalism. turned literary criticism into a form of political intervention. Tracing Said’s shifting conceptions of ‘literature’ and ‘agency’ in relation to the history of (American) literary studies in the thirty years or so between the end of World War II and the last quarter of the twentieth century, this book offers a rich and novel understanding of the critical practice of this indispensable figure and the institutional context from which it emerged. By combining broad-scale literary history with granular attention to the vocabulary of criticism, Nicolas Vandeviver brings to light the harmonizing of methodological conflicts that informs Said’s approach to literature; and argues that Said’s enduring political significance is grounded in his practice as a literary critic.. | 出版日期 | Book 2019 | 关键词 | Edward Said; Orientalism; history of literary criticism; political activism and literary theory; agency; | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27351-4 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-27353-8 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-27351-4 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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